999 INDIAN CORN OULTURE. 
Corn at that time in South Carolina was 
valued at 75 cents a bushel, which makes the 
erain worth $191.16, and adding the fodder 
value, $15, makes a total of $206.16 value in 
receipts. In February stabie manure was 
hauled on the land, followed by applheations of 
guano. cotton-seed meal and kainit. The land 
was then plowed, and following the plow 
cotton-seed meal was strewn in the furrows. 
A subsoil plow came after, breaking the soil to 
a depth of 12 inches. A Thomas smoothing 
harrow followed after the plowing. One bushel 
of Southern white dent corn of the gourd-seed 
variety was planted on March 2. The rows 
were furrowed out, alternately three and six 
feet apart, and five or six kernels were dropped 
to each foot of the row. Between the wide 
rows, later on in May, guano was applied, and 
then later, in June, a mixture of 500 lbs. of 
guano, cotton-seed meal and kaimit was spread 
in the wide spaces. Still later, in June, 100 
ibs. of nitrate of soda was scattered between 
the narrow rows and hoed in. Frequent culti- 
vation was onipee ed, but the land was kere 
flat, not ridged. 
The plants grew so large it became necessary 
to erect posts and nail slats to them on both 
sides of each row to prevent the corn from 
falling. The harvesting was done in the pres- 
ence of a large number of spectators. J. C. 
